Volume 3, ISSUE1/2012 - Review of Applied Socio-Economic ...

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ISSN: 2247-6172
ISSN-L: 2247-6172
Review of Applied Socio- Economic Research
(Volume 3, Issue 1/ 2012 ), pp. 108
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There is a gamble in our contemporary days. Too much emphasis on economic issues. Gambling
everything on the economic card can be very dangerous, because it ignores some of the core
problems that slowly eat away in any union. Its alliance is not so much economic, but rather it lies
on common interest, common values and future perspectives of growth. A bond is something more
than just economic links between countries, it should focus mainly on building together prosperity.
Gambling everything on pure economic exchange, without building together an apparatus that
produces and assures wealth as long as the countries cooperate means to destroy, along with values,
that whole cooperation mode that should exist between member states. I do now want to question
capitalism, as an economic existence based on profit. Most often we are used to considering
capitalism as a machine that produces immediate profit and we forget that immediate profit is not
that important for countries. Cooperation for future growth and constant growth is a lot more
important. Although there are two distinct Europes, with different wages, different social systems
and different economic performance, countries in the East can still produce even more added value
to the legitimacy of the European Union, through strong cooperation. Anyone today who thinks
about the problem of a rift between west and east Europe should not remain trapped in old disputes
or old way of thinking and perceiving a union. What seems to be a gap between East and West must
be translated and converted into a founding period for cooperation, brand new ideas and models.
What of the region of Central Europe? This has started to become a region of strength
through cooperation and with some major issues concerning the European continent, also an area of
contrast of public opinion. It is very interesting how this region has started to fit its interests
according to the values of the European Union but has continued to preserve some of its mentality,
which sometimes is beneficial in a world of permanent change and movement. In parallel to this
synchronization, it is easy to notice that the European Union, in turn takes a lot more care of the
problems of Central European region. This European region, which is inhabited by around sixty five
million European citizens fits perfectly into the European big picture but with its own little changes,
which can even strengthen the European Union or offer a model. The strengthening of bilateral ties
in the region has offered growth to the region, political strength together with proper representation
in the European Union and legitimacy for the European Union.
2. Future migration prospects? An evaluation of our scientific interest
The following research presents a double interest in the field of research of sociology and
European studies. On the one hand we look at a database created after Romania joined the European
Union. Thus, we are free to analyze in what way did the Romanian perception upon the European
Union has evolved in the course of the past years? We should especially focus upon the system of
values. The European Union stands for a specific set of values. Research should investigate the way
in which European values meet national values. The second point of interest is that of social market
economy. This concept was permanently coined through the Lisbon Treaty. It has become part of
the European Union and its existence constitutionalised through that very treaty. From this point on
this model becomes a symbol for the European Union’s vision on development and it becomes the
norm in all European countries. We have concentrated on the attitude of the citizens towards the
European Union. The underlying public attitudes (Campbell 1960, Lipset 1960) play a very
important part in the future development of policies.
Before going ahead with the analysis we felt the need to go into specifics regarding the term
of social market economy. It refers to the model of development used by the German economy
following the Second World War. It has been implemented and strictly followed in the Federal
Republic of Germany after the year 1945. Muller-Armack is the inventor of this concept, seen as the